Views about Life, Love, Light, and Liberty by Leroy Seat -- For my main blog see TheViewFromThisSeat.blogspot.com
The awards ceremony is late tonight CET, in a few hours from the moment I write. Until two days ago I had it in my mind for some reason that the date was March 12. As I’m getting a late start on this—and have yet to complete Friday’s Césars post—it will be short and to...
Philadelphia-born Irish American Justice Joseph McKenna intoned that the case had not shown Mississippi’s laws were evil, “only that evil was possible under them.” The courts also endorsed the Southern system of segregation. So-called Jim Crow laws kept black and white apart in public ...
I was most sensitive to this dynamic since I taught in the district that my daughters attended at the middle school level. This made both my professional and private lives an interesting experience and gave me greater insight into parents from an educator’s perspective. As my daughters grew ol...
You can climb into the engine to check out the view from the driver’s seat and even ring the bell. Every instrument in in the driver’s compartment is labeled, and information on the engine is displayed on various signs inside and out. Next climb aboard the 1985 Bessemer caboose and ...
Collaborative learning too often takes a back seat to lecture and direct instruction. These are tailored to classroom learning and far less effective in remote learning. We need an honest look at both the classroom model and the remote model for learning and adjust accordingly. Face–to-face ...
On attitudes toward the poor, divides are sharper than on opinions about government.Blue-collar whites were much more likely than nonwhites to view the poor as a class set apart from the rest of society – trapped in poverty as a more or less permanent condition. Minority Americans, ...
There is no other triumph and will be none, no matter how much human knowledge is enlarged."124 Niebuhr thought that laughter "sometimes contributed to the loss of prestige of dying oligarchies and social systems," but that "laughter alone never destroys a great seat of power and authority ...
My Elementary Good-Bye I looked calmly around Manana Elementary School. Sweat dripped from the back of my head and ran down the back of my body. I could smell the cool morning fragrance and the birds chip-chirping. I saw that the school was the same as it used to be when I came to...
and specifically the way he’d be helping to target this community, one not that far from his home. “I should have done a little more research before agreeing to the gig. I have no malice towards the people who own these businesses. I don't want anybody to lose their business because...